Improvement in water-proof compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. HJMILlJER, or .BosToN, MASSACHUSETTS.

lMPROVEMENT IN WATER-PROOF COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,319, dated June 6, 1876; application filed November 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY F. ILMILLER,

of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State preserved from decay, as well as rendered water-proof and water-repelling.

This my invention is molded in a convenient shape, so as to be carried in ones pocket, if required, without soiling the same, and, as a dressing, it is particularly applicable to boots and shoes in moist and. damp weather, when it will protect the feet thoroughly from dam pness.

The manner in which my invention is used is simply to rub the wax lightly over the boot or shoe, and then to rub or polish it gently with a cloth of any suitable material, although cotton cloth is preferable for this purpose.

Boots or shoes dressed and polished with my invention may be exposed to dampness and water without ali'ecting the polish thereon, or

allowing the moisture and water to penetrate the same.

My invention is composed and made as follows: About ten pounds of paraffine-wax, sixpounds of stearic acid, and four pounds of beeswax are heated and melted together in a suitable vessel. I then add about two pounds ofivory-black, one and one-halt'pound of lampblack, three ounces of gum-dam mar, ten ounces of pulverized sugar, one-half gill of high-proof alcohol, one-halt gill of spirits of turpentine, and three ounces of ba gsoap.

The above is kept ma while being brought to boiling, and also when it is put into suitable molds, after which it is allowed to cool, and is then ready for use.

What I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

The water-proof boot and shoepolishing wax, as herein described, composed of paratfine-wax, stearic acid, beeswax, i\"ory-black, lamp-black, gum-dammar, sugar, alcoh0],spirits of turpentine, and bar-soap, in or about the proportions specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention-I have afiixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. U. MILLER.

Witnesses ALBAN ANDEEN, SARAH M. MiLLEu. 

